In 200 years there will be many people claiming Perl is dead. And others will respond by pointing to the million modules on CPAN.
The community will be waiting eagerly for Perl 17 (as for the last 20 years), and use the stable version 16.42.1 meanwhile.
Except for some poor fellows who have to mantain legacy-code written in Perl 6.

So all will be fine ... at least till the next overflow of the Mayan calendar.